The Atlas GT5 Top Gear Lap Leaderboard

Maybe a new thread for the actual leader board and car selection?
My best time 1:33.870.
Did a 1:32.9 but cut one of the corners (the one after hammerhead) 1 mm to much... so there is a lot of time to be found here.

My 320gb Ps3 slim and GT5 is on order, please hold out for me to get it up and running next weekend! We going to set a date for final time and replay submission? How does 23.59 on Dec 31st sound? Gives everyone chance to get some laps in over Chrtistmas hols

How may I ask did you do that? I've not done too many laps (about 30), but am still only around the 1.40-41's. Is your Swift a bit warmed up?

I did my time of 1:33.8 with a Suzuki Swift Sport 2007, 123 bhp and no modifications done on the car since buying it. The price for the car was 16300 Cr. Can it be a difference between versions of the game? I run the Pal version, I suspect Baddog dose the same.

My 320gb Ps3 slim and GT5 is on order, please hold out for me to get it up and running next weekend! We going to set a date for final time and replay submission? How does 23.59 on Dec 31st sound? Gives everyone chance to get some laps in over Chrtistmas hols

Oh yeah and suzuki swift sounds a good choice

I guess at the moment its just in a 'fart about and see' phase anyway so I wuldnt worry. You are in for a treat, the PS3 is a great machine

The moment you get manual gears working for you it will be ALL worth it trust me. The car just feels alive in comparison. Also you go 2+ seconds a lap quicker lol

I think I was a bit put off as the 'paddles' on the DFGT are just buttons and aren't great really, and then the sequential gearstick isn't the most solid of items and not being a real driver (yet) taking my hands off the wheel is still totally alien to me.

I'll have to grit my teeth and just learn how to do it, especially if it gives you that 2 seconds +!!

After about 15 attempts finally completed the camper van race without a dq I got the gold, the prize cash gave me just enough to get the stock 07 swift sport from the dealer. After 5 laps my best time is 1.34.119. All aids off except ABS set at 1. off track friction set to real.

A nice addition would be to have the option to do the lap from a standing start like they do on the show. Is it possible to do a 1 lap race or hotlap session to acheive this or is it always rolling start?

After about 15 attempts finally completed the camper van race without a dq I got the gold, the prize cash gave me just enough to get the stock 07 swift sport from the dealer. After 5 laps my best time is 1.34.119. All aids off except ABS set at 1. off track friction set to real.

A nice addition would be to have the option to do the lap from a standing start like they do on the show. Is it possible to do a 1 lap race or hotlap session to acheive this or is it always rolling start?

I did a go-kart 'One Make Race' on the TG track last night. That was a standing start...

For my time trials, I've tried to do all of them from a standing start too, just by parking my Swift as close to the line without triggering it as possible. My best time is a 1.35.3 atm, and that's from a rolling start.

I have all aids off now, except for ABS at 1 like yourself. I think people should be able to use aids if they feel they need them, but as I've found (mostly in the rally) TC isn't really something that makes you quicker.

The only sim iv witnessed a driving aid making people universally faster was in live for speed where for a time most wrs in rear drive cars were held by keyboard and mouse drivers such was the effectiveness of the counter steer aid. It could actually calculate the optimal steering angle for any given speed, weight dist at any time, all that was needed was the correct turn in point and the car equalised it self better than any driver could. It got dumbed down soon after! Rightly so but it was clever stuff.

I have it unlocked and i didnt get gold in the elise race.I did however get gold in the vw jeep race and i cant remember if the track was unlocked before then....

I have a sneaking suspision that you need to get gold on the first event or complete the three events. Some around here will say it's open after the first but are forgetting they have spent an entire day getting gold on one event!!

I have a sneaking suspision that you need to get gold on the first event or complete the three events. Some around here will say it's open after the first but are forgetting they have spent an entire day getting gold on one event!!

That's right, it shows up on practice after getting gold on the first event with the VW bus. It took me like 10 attempts, but as a rule of thumb, if you cannot challenge for 6th at Gambon, then scrap the race and try again. Slipstream after Follow-through corner is key on both laps

If you need to get gold to open it then I'm afraid the game is going to go out of the window!!!!

You only need gold in the campervan event. You dont even need to do the other events.

Tips for that:

Auto off, its very very easy to keep in the right gear but you cannot rely on the auto.Drive aggressively, you want to be 6-7 after the first few corners. Better to fail in a blaze of glory in this one than be left trying to catch up.If one van is taking off way ahead of all the others, quit and restart, you need the front runners fighting among themselves if possible.On that note, dont be hesitant to restart if you have a bad first half of lap one. Saves you heaps of wasted time.

Ok guys back down to business. 1m32.943. Anyone care to put a provisional leaderboard together? Im on smartphone in bed. Ps, I noticed that invalid laptimes (cuts etc) are shown in red text and valid ones green. We agree only green laps count?